APM vs ACPI

[Matthew Carpenter]

begin  "Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at intergate.com>
(Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:37:47 -0500)

> 
> 
> > kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> >> Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > 
> > Good discussion on this topic.. I'd like to add that during some of my
> > testing on UnitedLinux 1.0 w/2.4.19 kernel, which has acpi enabled, we
> > found all kinds of wierdness going on from NIC's that weren't recognized
> > or couldn't ping out on the lan to SCSI issues where the kernel couldn't
> > initialize the hardware on the SCSI chain.
> > 
> > SuSE told us to us ACPI=OFF or ACPI=OLDBOOT..These boot options did fix
> > the problem. Seems that the ACPI stuff in the 2.4.19 kernel is a little
> > whacky.. So you'll want 2 things, the newest kernel, and its related
> > ACPI patches, and a machine with a sufficiently new BIOS.. For example,
> > if the BIOS rev date isn't 2000 or later the kernel wont even start the
> > ACPI stuff...
> > 

I thought the problems were with buggy mobo's, not necessarily in the ACPI code.  At least that's the impression I got from the UL team.
-- 
Matthew Carpenter
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